Wagon-box holder.



NITED TATES ATEN'r FFICE.

WILLIAM A. CROTTS, OF PARTRIDGE, KANSAS.

WAGON-BOX HOLDER.

SPECIFICATN forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,475, dated February13, 1900.

Application filed October 31, 1899. Serial No. 735,400. (No model.)

,T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. CROTTS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Partridge, in the county of Reno and State of Kansas,have invented a new and Improved Wagon-Box Holder, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for holdinga wagon-boxiirmly in connection with a bolster; and the object is to provide asimple device to prevent the jumping motion of a wagon body or box onthe rear bolster, as often happens when an empty Wagon-boxis looselyplaced on the bolster and when driving over rough places or when thehorses are on a trot, thus not only making a disagreeable rattling, butcausing the parts to wear out quickly.

I will describe a wagon-box holder embodying myinvention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both igures.

Figure l is aside elevation of a portion of a wagon-box, showing aholder embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a section through the line2 2 of Fig. l.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a bolster, 2 a standard, and 3the wagon-box. Attached to the side-board of the box is a rackbar 4,with either one of the teeth of which the free end of a dog 5 is adaptedto engage. This dog is of spring metal and is mounted to swing on a pin6, attached to the standard 2. Also pivotally connected to the side ofthe standard is a cam -lever 7, having a camshaped head 8, which when inone position will hold the dog 5 in close connection with the rack-bar.When turned to another position-that is, to bring the surface of thehead 8 a less distance from the axis-the dog 5 will swing outward freefrom the rack, so that the box or body may be lifted. Of course therewill be one of these holding devices at each side of the wagon-box andpreferably over the rear bolster.

By this device it is obvious Ithat the box will be held from all jumpingmotion relatively to the bolster, and as the top of the bolster wearsaway or the bottom of the box Wears the spring-- yielding dog willpermit the box to move downward, so that the box 4can engage withanother tooth of the rack-bar.

It is obvious that this device may be readily attached to any wagon ofthe construction shown Without weakening any of the parts.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patentl. A wagon-box holder, comprising a rackbaradapted to be secured to the side of the box, a dog mounted to swing onthe wagonstandard and adapted for engagement with Jthe teeth of therack-bar, and a lever pivoted to the standard and having a cam-headengagin g with the dog,substantially as specified.

2. A wagon-box holder, comprising a rackbar secured vto the Wagon-box, aspring-yielding dog mounted to swing on a standard of the wagon andadapted for engagement with a tooth of the rack-bar, and a cam-lever forholding the dog in engagement with the rackbar, substantially asspecified.

3. A wagon-box holder, comprising a rackbar attached to the wagon-box,and a part supported on a standard of the wagon and adapted forengagement with said rack-bar, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM A. CROTTS. lVitnesses:

ADA CRoTTs, R. J. GRESHAM.

